Copernicus

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hello from me too, SoulWound! Hey, btw, I didn't notice before, but it looks like we've had another player join the empire -- kryofx. Welcome!

Reply to Confessions of a GalCiv gamer in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Arrrrg!!! Don't remind me that I spent 50 bucks on Moo3. I was so hoping that game was going to be so much better than it was...

Reply to Looking for an empire in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Code Monkey -- I'll kindly ask you to refrain from mentioning that aspect of joining a big empire. I'm still in pain from that face-removal process, and although I'm sure losing my face was a bargain price for joining the Mid-Western Confederation, I'd still rather that you wouldn't bring it up. ;)

Reply to Looking for an empire in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

:) Yeah, the competition between empires is getting pretty fierce. Still, you can be in a competitive empire without being a competitive kind of guy. On the other hand, as you can see, everybody from all the empires communicate with each other, so if all you want is to have a good time and interact with other players, you don't need to get involved with an empire at all, if you don't want. (Also, given that the GalCiv empire system rewards empires with more players, you'd expect to re

Reply to 1.04.59 or later bug reports in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've got a little bug that's been around for a long time: there's a United Planets resolution mentioning something about sharing the wealth from the largest economy down to the smaller economies. This event always says that "The (human empire name) has been determined to be the largest economy", even when the human player's economy is not the largest one. When the resolution gets voted in, the actual empire with the largest economy apparently does get hit (I receive tribute rather than sending

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah, it looks like the empire db is still in the process of being cleaned up. (Quite possibly, the player db is still in process as well, down further in the ranks.)

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Yeah, the trade goods have definitely been made less expensive. I can see why they did it; I've been using the trade goods to survive at Masochist levels before now -- you never needed to research anything, if you could just somehow pick up a few trade goods and pass them out among the various aliens to pick up huge amounts of tech. So yeah, Trade Goods are a whole lot less powerful than they were before. (And for me at least, I'm having a whole lot more trouble getting anywhere at Ma

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Hmm, I would have expected Stardock to allow earlier versions to submit; after all, they have plenty of copies of the 1.0 version still being sold in stores, so they've got to be getting at least a few new people each week trying to submit scores from really old versions. On the other hand, if you're running 1.35 and you've got a 1.2 game, maybe the 1.35 version doesn't want to submit it...

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

No Gerakken, I most certainly will not Quake, whether in fear or otherwise. I never really got into Doom, let alone Quake, and I tend to prefer turn-based games anyway. :) I got a chance to try out GalCiv 1.04 last night. I haven't gotten too far yet, but there are a few noticable differences. For one, "Loose Clusters" are far more loose than before, which has been throwing off my playing style somewhat. For another, the game now encourages you to select all your civilization bonus

Reply to Metaverse Scores trashed? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't think you need to worry, it looks like all the individual game scores are being reduced -- so once they recalculate each Metaverse player's total score, they are all going to drop (and your relative position will come back up).

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My holiday weekend went as normal for me -- traveling from one relative's house to another, fixing their computer problems. Ah, the life of a geek. :) I'm easing back into the much less hectic, more relaxing 9-5 work schedule now. Might even have time for computer games again. :)

Reply to why is always the same???? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It's kind of funny, but I've been playing this game for a month or so now and I haven't yet tried building a transport. :) I almost never build warships other than for local system defense, either. As others have said, if you're appropriately diplomatic and sneaky, there are often ways to work around militaristic opponents...

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Chris #65: Actually, it's quite easy to distinguish the various US regions, if you think about it in a Euro-centric point of view. Back when the land rush started here in the Western Hemisphere, the first colonies were established (on the, ahem, East coast) and immediately began expanding westward. They took the western passes over the mountains into the Western Territories, through the Western plains and deserts and finally reached the West Coast. So in the U.S., a thin strip of land

Reply to Mid-West Confederation communication & recruiting thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Now, now, let's not be judgemental, as some of us Midwesterners like me benefitted from this scoring mechanism (even though I didn't realize it was a scoring gimmick at the time, I just like running up my population numbers a bit).

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

PontiusBruinPilot: I take it back, it looks like Galileo never did recant (my memory is failing me). You can get some info on the lives of Copernicus and Galileo pretty easily on the net, such as this one from a quick Google search for "Copernicus": http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html FYI, a quick timeline: o Feb 19, 1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus born in Torun, Poland o 1514 - Copernicus distributes the "Little Commentary" to col

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

PontiusBruinPilot: I think you're thinking of Galileo, who espoused the ideas of Copernicus and who was tortured into recanting those beliefs by the Church. Copernicus himself published his ideas late in life, and didn't live to see very much of the uproar they started...

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Great to have you on the team, bigman2013!! (Personally, I think it's kinda cool to see how dominating Ohio & the Midwest is becoming in the Metaverse. I'd love to see the Midwest Confederation ahead of the European Alliance at some point... ;) )

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Christopher Packer: Oh, well, I guess I just assumed they were overripe; I've never actually been to one of these races, I just saw one in a documentary on the Discovery channel. (The camera was pretty far away from the action, so all you could see was fruit arcing against the sky in the distance.) If the fruit really is that hard, I don't see why the animal rights people haven't started some kind of action by now. (My relationship to the real Copernicus? Apart from deriving at least

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

forceinfinity: Hey, Denver seems like a cool place to live! I lived in Provo, UT for about a year, it was great being able to hike around in the mountains there. I left Wayne in 87, so we probably never crossed paths there. Ah well, probably for the best, I try not to remember my high school years much. :)

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Christopher Packer #34: Oh, yeah, I've heard of those Hippo races! Why anyone would choose to run naked through six inches of mud down a long straightaway ahead of a pack of rampaging hippos while bystanders lob overripe kiwifruit at them is beyond me, but apparently it's a popular activity. Then again, the most popular sport around here involves driving a car as fast as you can around in a little circle for hours at a time or until you crash, so what would I know. ;)

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

forceinfinity: How long ago did you leave Huber Heights? I grew up there! I left for college after I graduated from Wayne, but I eventually moved back to this area (got lots of family around here, so I wanted to live in the area). I'm living down in Kettering now...

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Actually, the flag is a representation of the artwork of the famous Midwestern modern artist, Johnson Polak. He was drawn to the simplicity, grace, and powerful symbolism of the semicircle, and performed his craft all over the region (you've probably heard of the "crop semi-circles" that were appearing all over this region). Unfortunately, he passed away recently from injuries sustained in an unfortunate incident with drop bears during a trip to Australia...

Reply to What is an independent player to do?? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, I'd say the choice to join the Midwest is obvious, but then I'm probably biased. ;)

Reply to Research strategies in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

In the games I've been playing lately, I don't even try to choose one tech path over another. I'm normally so focussed on pumping out colony ships and constructors that I always fall behind the other races in tech, no matter what. I try to focus on the quickest, easiest techs to produce, and try to trade them with the other races for anything I can get (minor races are very helpful in this regard).

Reply to metaverse submission problem in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

It looks like this "connection recognition" may be the problem, at least for me; this time, before submitting my score, I alt-tabbed out of the game and used Internet Explorer to go to a few web pages, then went back to GalCiv. And, the submission worked. So, I don't know why GalCiv can't see the connection when Internet Explorer can, but this seems to be a common problem. BTW, my machine is sharing another computer's connection to the net over a lan, so maybe that has something to do